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MAILS. . . AltittvL9-1 Dublin, 3 Waterio.%l. Du Gotttnt,..urgh, •s Dublin, I Waterford-. PRICE OF STOCKS TrIIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCIC. Consols - 68* 68 F Red. Arm. 681 I Omniurrs - THE SUN. •OLZM QUIP DlClstr lATAIUM AUDIAT L 0 N .D 0 IV, MONDAY, AUGUST I, 1803. The Plover Sloop of-War arrived at. Plymouth on Saturday, from Portugal : she brought over a Portuguese Officer, who arrived in town this morn ing, with Dispatches. The intelligence from Oporto comes down to the 22d Llt-. Ai . that time the Army of the Patriots had advanced beyond Coimbra ; they consisted of about 8,000 regi mented 'troops, and 12,000 Peasants. It appears that JUNOT was uncertain what steps to take after the check which LetsoN'had received : that Gene ral had, however, sent part of his Force to join another Corps under General LASORDE, whom .T s NOT liAd sent from Lisbon to Santarena, and bed ad vanced to Leyria, with a view, it was said, to attack the Patriots. It is hoped, however, the Pa triots will wait the arriyal of Sir A. WELLEsLEy,- who was off cape Finisterre on the 22d, With his Army. WE are happy to state that the : - .pedition sailed from Portsmouth yesterday, under donvoy "of the Audacious. The Transports amounted to about 170. They will be joined off. Plymouth by General Au- STRUTHER'S division of the Expedition. Dutch Papers to. the 27th - ult. have arrived, which contain some very minute details respeaing the pro gress of JOSEPH BUONAPARTE is Spain. It is, stated, that he was received every where with the utmost • . • , demonstrations of joy, and such was the enthusiasm of the troops, that the African Regiment of In fantry actually ran by the side of his carriage for three leagues, although they were repeatc4 told to desiA t Whiie he remained at Tolosa, a I.l.tputa. tio.l ITT SE. Andero waitod upon him, ratified the - • ‘• oath that had bees taken by the Town, and solicited forgweness for their error. This Peputation con sisted of six persons, but the Dutch Tapp e ts do not in us whether these Deputies from st. Andero • khlg - Jowl' to Visit that own, or nitUruled # • bin) that he inhabitants had espelled the trench troops from their wails, and that t h ey were deter ,. inhied to maintaititheir own independence, and sup port the rights of their legitimate Sovereign. sto- SEISES, it appears, arrived at Burgos on the t4th ult. trONArAicrs Was at liAyoeine, on the 16th; but it was supposed that he would set out upon a jcuraey along the western coast of France. Softie of 'the accounts say, that he ws expected at Strasbprglf. These R.pers am more impoitant lox what they do not contain than for . what they do, because, by their siienee, they afford the most' indisputable evi dence that-the reports which have been circulated of the defeat of General CA,STANOS, by pUPONT, is unfotinded. • The accounts •in these . Papers frOm Bayonne, 'come doWn to the lAth ultimo, and it is certain that At that lime no good intelli gence bad been there received respell ing PONT. If he had been successful, and got out of his difficulties, the French Papers would stave been full of the news. We are now therefore assured, that CASTANOS could not have been beaten in any ation before the loth, however might . have been vießo lions, • • -It is stated in a Paper - Of. this morning; that the Duke of York is to have the chief command of the Arny- in Spain. No aetual . apivintmeut has, we believe, yet taken place, but we are convinced that it would be gratifying to the People of Spain, that our Army should be coTinanded by one of the Prin ..s. THE attewpts which are made by some of the Qpposition Writers to damp the public expeMation tievaing the event of the glorious struggle in would excite our regret if they were not cruplen with tinjn-It attacks, 'von Administration,, iv.ho,are falsely accused of having lost time in nis 7 6i.t es amarq themses, and sacrificing the ii(Stin.ntis cause cif the Sdanifili Patriois, by tardiness and negligeace. That part of these att. , cks which implies the existence of diffl-rcnces among Mini.. sters is 'fin hackneyed an expedient of the Op. position Writers, tnkt, it h.arcily deser.Ves.any •other rotice than a Ed c. , n4adiCtion, for it has not the least fliind.iron in truth. The present Mi nh.ters litiow the iinp , irrant and critical situatio n in - which Europe is placed at this moment, and bend all their powers in a cordiOl co-operation to prevent the awful crisis froro passing without dine attention to the nature- of events, and the most aEtive' exertions to turn them to the best advantage. the' whole world must approve of the generous as sistance which we are rendering, to Portugal as well , Spain, and, considering tie ma,gnit;tde and va- riety of the respeaive services, ;t cannot he said that they have not been rendered with all practica ble celerity and effea. The reports of did - kettles, in the way of a choice of proper Commanders, have been chiedy the fabrication of the party writers for their own purposes ; but admitting that there have been. such dit*ulties, it never can' be said That the choice has not fallen on men from whose military ta lents and experience every thing may be expeaed that zeal, knowledge, and enterprising spirit can accom plish. But we are told that if the'British Troops had been earlier dispatched, Spain would have been able to obtain more decisive advantages, and that, indeed, not a Frenchman wotild, perhaps, now be alive in that Country. The Writers who make these unjust and Absurd charges, forget that an intercourse took place between the Patriotic Spaniards and the British Commanders, before those Patriotic Spa niards sent a formal embassy to the British Government, and when our Naval and Mili tary Powers were authorized to co-operate with the Spanish Patriots, in securing the French Fleet at Cadiz, the latter, from a high sense of gallantry and honour, not frau any mean imputse'elf jealousy, Wished to have all the glory of the anion selves ; a feeling of laud-able pride, and respect for their Country. All possible activity has since that period been shewn in sending supplies of every kind to the Spaniards, and they are deeply sen sible of the zeal and promptness with which we have supported their cause, while the spirit of faaious spleen at home has laboured to excite British discontent, in proportion to the warmth of Spanis'h gratitude. But it is not only by pitiful complaints against Ministers that the Opposition Writers attempt to discourage the public hopes of a successful issue to the struggles of patriotism in Spain, 1 . 0 they lay great stress upon the progress of JOSEPH BUONAPARTE in that Country, and manifest aPprehensions, that: by force and artifice united, he may at' length be a'ele to essablish himself on the throne. 'ut they either do not or will not consider the cautious nature of his progress, the little advance he has made, and the formidable resistance which he has to encounter in the unanimous efforts of a whole people determined to maintain their independence, ‘k.ho have the powerful assistance of this Country,. and the Is i,hes of all mankind in their favour. Qn Saturday the D u k e of Yoiu; arrived at Wind sor, hal'an audience oi his MAJESTY most part of the• day,, Wiled With the QUEEN and P44NOEssEs,- and in the evening returned to town. Yeiterday MAJesrv, Princeses SOPHIA, and AtrousTA, - a(!compauted by Lady ToYAINE, Gene rals I'"ITZKOY and CARTWIGHT, and Col. TAYLOR, rode to St. George'ti.Chapel, and heard Divine Ser vice, and aft( rwardc returned to' the Palace; • Gilts, the MesSepker, 'arrived yesterday at the Admiralty, with dispatches frotn AdMiral !vIuNTA GUE. at•Porisitiouth; 1-1 yg, thv Admiralty Messenger, left towrkyester day evening with dispatches for Sir Malty* WEL. I.43t•LY. An 'dditinnal order for 90,90.0 stand, of arms has been 'delivered' at the Tower, - Which and to be shipped to Spain an,l - Partugal . with the' utmost ex pedition. Friday last the Royal pock., or King's Qwn Re giment of Militia, oil their Parade East &tune, volunteered to a man kit offering tl,elr:servie e s to any part of Europe, in t , the present momentous The wind having come round to the eastward yesterday, the Ix7editiop . from St. Helen's will be able •to make sotii , 2 progress. It has receive. an accession of some recruit s an d troops from Ireland, particularly the 2d battali ons o f t h e 36t h' and 45th, which will make it amount to nearly 15,Q00 men. The first rendezvous is to be olf - the Tagus; In the mean tim e ot h er preparations are making for the fourth V..icpeditipn. Almost the whole of the 9t.t:rds liave reCeited order's to embark. The following is an Extract of . a Letter upon this sub jeat " CHATHAM, JULY 30.—This morning, while out for a field-day, the 2d Brigade of Guards, con sioing.of the Ist battalion of the Coldstream, and 3d I.'..ghtient, received an Express, Ordering them to b;..! in teaditte,i to embark for foreign service on the s4ortest. notice. They will immediately be c 0.7.- pleted from the ..cl. Battalion of their respective Re g;ments; in London, to 1300 rank and file each ; and we venture to assert, that a finer body of men, and, to the credit of their Officers, a 'Corps better disciplined, is nut to be found in any part of the world. On the order being communicated to the men, they testified their satistadion by loud and re pe.tteck ouz.ztis ; every day, in , lettd; 'adds fresh in stances of the enthusiasm which aCtuateS't he whole of the army. A war more popular, or a cause more congenial to Briti:h feelings, has not liappened ir; modern times We unk:eroatut that a similar order was_ at the, same time sent fothe Ist D tat ol,consisting of the Ist and . ad , Battalions of the Unice of YozK's Regiment. The Sots 'ftrtyals,. 4th Battalion a the 20th, or,Caturronians ;' the 25th, or Edinburgh Re. giment h 8d Battalion'; the 3d Battalion of the 27th, or Inniskilling Regiment, are embarking at The latter go out under the command of Brigadier- General $4444 4 , to join Sir 4artivit Wgl.4 , usi c . tiv's Army. Ott Friday night, Mr. W4oqsrAFT, the Messen ger, left town war' dispatches for ,J. *HUNTER, isq. in Spain. This Messe n g er goes o u t b y the sane conveyance as Lord W. ~,Ptzwrisrpc, Mr . Dvyr, and the Spanish Messenger, whose departure we an nounced on Saturday. He is to ;main in Spain for the purpose of bringing back as speedily as pos sible the first intelligence that isle be communic a t e d from the Patriotiocourt: • • - NAVAL Z 4 E W S.. FALutouTtr, JULY 29.—This day arrived His Majesty's Ship L'AinzOle, of 36 guns, Capt. Lord G. STEWART, having under her convoy the follow ing Transports, viz. Selina, Friends, Renown, Argo, Oronooko, Efi;a, Grace, Langley, Industry, and saliy, having on board the 20th and Queen's own Regiment, and are to wait the arival here of the Ex. pedition under Sir 4oßter M °ORE, from Porp.;mouth when the whole are expeaed immediately to sail. Also put in here this day the following Ships of War, with the outward-bound Convoys Majesty's Ship Tronipeuse, with the outward-bound Fleet for Madeira ; the Little Belt, with ditto, for Africa ; and the Growler, with a Fleet of Vietuallers for His Majesty's Fleet off L'Orient. Arrived the. Crane Schooner from Plymouth; agcl the Anne Tender, from ditto, for Bristol. The Princess Amelia Packet, with the Mail for orunua sails to-morrow. EIGHT O'CLOCK, P. M.—A Fleet is now off the Harbour, supposed to be the outward-bound Brazil Convoy- 7 should the wind continue in the same quarter as at present, they are expeEted to put in here to7morro. PLYMOUTH, JULY 30.--Arrived His Majesty's Ship rille de Pari . s, of 100 guns, Admiral QANIBIER, fro m T or b ay ; and St. Alban's, of 64 guns, from the Arrived and sailed for the River the Carlbary# SowDeN, from Jamaica. Sailed His Majesty's Ships Fisgard and Desperate on a cruize; arid Bloodhound for Sheerness. SHE ERN ESS, JULY 29.—Caine from the Little Nore the `Combatant to repair damages sustained by till s Winelrefl,rea driving on board her. JULY 'J3o.—Arrived and passed up the Riv e r the Prevoyelge Store-ship, M'Cor Master, from 4Yrd Mediterranean, and Bloodhound Gun-brig, Lie►it,.. FLINPERS, from the Downs.- JULY 31.—Arrived the Deptford Tender from tLe t River with 70 impressed men and voiunteers for tk Fleet. The F . ylla, of 20 guns, Capt. RODNEY, hal Mg S . signal for . conwoy coastwise ; and Oberon Sloof , Capt. &Trois, for Heligoland. STATZ*ENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TUB gaillsX' NAVAL FORCE TO THIS DAY. Line I im's I Fri. Sps. C.B I Vg . ' In j i l i e ,n E n n e r i ish lc frish i ii 1 19 , 5 37 St Downs and North Sea 18 o 9 39 59 1 1 P Spain, ortugal-4Gibt4.l6 2 6 1 7 5 i Mediterranean &Passage 2z I t ( 22 1 x 6 I 5 I 3 Cdast of Africa - - m o 1 I 1 2 o I 3 West Indies and Pass age 6 1 ! 12 1 28 311 7, • Tamales Station - 3 2 1 1 /8 7 l i America &Newfoundland 3 0 j 1 9 1 10 7 I 30 Cape of Good Hope, &c. 7 1 0 1 5 1 9 i 5 oOn Expeditions - I o 6 1 2 East Indies and Passage 3 0 21 6 41 34" Total at Sea . go 7 In Port and fitting - 2 3 Guartr.Ship,i e Hospital & Prison Ships 32 I 7 30 4 II Total in Commission t 64 Building - 61 I In ordinary - 52 Total 277 ►T2 I .79 1 10 6 04 110° eastward. Sailed the Raven Sloop of War and Crane Schooner, to the westward. Last night arrived 18 Sail of Transports, under convoy of the St. illban's, from the Downs, haring General ANSTRUTAER'S division of the Expedition on board. Sixty of the troops affected with the opthalmia are to be landed here. Provided the wind shifts they will sail this evening for their destination, Arrived the Plover Sloop of War from off Lis bon ; she landed a Portuguese Officer, who imme:- diately set off for London with dispatches; also the Foxlipanci, Sloop of War from a cruize. it,rrived the American Ship Cornet, Mix, from New York in ballast, with passengers, detained by the Shannon Frigate. POIITSMOUTH, JULY 31.—Arrived yesterday the Boadicea Frigate, Capt. HATLEY, from a cruize. Sailed this day the Audacious, of 74 guns, Capt. GossEr..t, Egeria Sloop of War, Capt. Hot,e, Bra*en Sloop of War, Capt. SHEPHERD, and Zebra Bomb, Capt. TOKER, having under convoy the Ex pedition under the command of Sir U. BVIIIIALD, consisting of about 170 Sail of Transports. Lieutenant-General Sir HARRY 4ualt.ittn, Bart. artived here on Sunday, and took the command of the ExpediC9n from Sir JOHN J,IOORE. The Transports having been furnished witn every neces sary, vent down to St. Helen's on Wednesday ; and the Audacious, 74, Capt. GOSSELIN ; Brazen, Capt. SILEPHEARD; Egeria, (Sloops) Cart. HOLE; and the 4etra Bomb, Capt. ToKER, which are appoint ed to convoy them, have since joined them. A part of the 3614 Regiment (2d battalion), and three brigades of ;he Itoyal Artillery haVe been added • to the forces, which increased the number of Trans ports to 1.56 Sail, and the number of men to 14,000. Lieutenant-General Sir HARRY BURRARD, Bart, Lieutenant-General Sir Jour . ; MOORE, K. 13. and the Hon. Lieutenant-General JOHN HOPE, are em • barked on board the Audacious; Lieutenant-Gene ral •M'KENZIE FRASER, and Major-General KAY, on board the Brazen ; Lieutenant-General Lord PAGET, and Major -General Enwaan PAc.4ET,. on board the Egeria ; and Major-General Lord W. BENTICK, on board the Zebra.—General CLINTON is Aditl:alll-Gelleral to the forces ; Cu. lonel MURRAY, Quarter-Master General ; COl9- nel CAREY, Deputy Adjutant-General ; and Colo nel DONKIN, Deputy Quarter-Master-General.--7 These Officers have likewise embarked on board the Audacious; besides Colonel GRAHAM, M. P. Major COLBOURNE, Capt. WHEATLEY, and Capt. Bun- BARD . , of the Staff. Colonel Woon commands the Artillery. Mr. KENNEDY is Deputy Commissary General ; Dr. FERGUSON, InspeCtor of Hospitals ; D. LAttentic, and Dr. TYCE, Physicians to the forces; Mr. LINZLE, Mr. CRATIzoN, and Mr. DINELY, Staff-Surgeon's ; Mr. Gur;sux, Purveyor; and Mr. LEWIS, Apothecary. The Audacious has 500,000 dollars on board, as a military chest. The 5000 troops that embarked at Ramsgate, and were expected to join the Expedition at this port, passed by on Sunday last, in 20 sail of transports, for Lisbon, under convoy of the St. Albans, 64, Capt. AUSTEN.—General DUMOURIER is on board the St. Albans.--The 9th, 43d, 52d, and 97th Re- giments, are on board the transports.—Medical stores were shipped for their use from this port ;: and the transports Which have them on board, have been since ordered to sail with Sir HARRY BURRARD'S Expedition. DEAL, JULY 31.—Sailed His Majesty's Guist brig fearkss with a convoy for Portsmouth. STATE OF THE ORD Portsmouth - Plymouth _ Chatham - Sheerness :.. River lixtraneous _ . 12 '7 • 2 - 0 Toal sz 2 j3 1 AT E INAR 297 ACH I' 2 47 ORT. 651 51 I -203 The Cormorant Revenue Cutter, Capt. HEARD has captured and b roug h t i nt o Powey, a Frenc h Lugger Privateer, which he discovered off te, Lizard, and took after a chace of nine hours. W this ves s el was learnt that no less than eleve ° , other Privateers were 1) iOg ready for sea at St. O c i loes wh en s h e l e f t t h at port. The above vessel 10.. marten() capture; ; but o n e of a s i m il ar d escr i p ti'l' 3 took tw o B rigs on ti e 22 d i nstants w i t hi n sight ° • Marazion, and was afterwards chased by the 1 - :' 1° : 1 videfice and D o lphi n R evenue Cutters, but escape d from both of them. On the 23d, a small SlooP' which hail been captured oil' the Mounts-bat by a French Lugger, was observed close in by S i c i Agnec, (one of rite Scilly Islands) and it appetite het scarcely her had manag emen t , t h at t h ose on board 'r scarcely knew wh at t o d o w i t h her. That she- het not re-taken, w a s ow i ng to t h e P ilots mistaking are. in too late, fOr one o f t h e many Sloops whicl °I; in the habit ot coming to those Islands for.P. °r tio t ' toes ; but it was' afterwards believed that she from Tg , rbay, with groceries for the Fleet otl a ul-. iittiOU, Ii()ELETs, from Falmouth, t o St. Re --5f which had been taken by a Fren c h P r i vateer ne . r, ef the Land's - End, has been retaken and carrie e into Plymouth. H er crew were takien into t he Privateer, but C a pt a i n R osEa ' rs rema i ning in 11i; Vessel, lias b een thus rescued from a Fr enc h prisnli: The principal r e nd ezvous o f t h e Enemy ' s P r i va teer' appears to be on the round from St. Ives, by to the Lizard ; and there, we trust, a good out will be kept for them. _Since writing the above we are informed that °°e• of the Brigs captured on the :22d, was the N ai l' zian, MAxFIELI), ith wheat, malt, &c. ir'':i- Yarmou:ll to Liverp o ol ; th e crew o r w hi ch, as siste d by some fishermen, rose upon the Frenchmen, r e " took their Vessel and carried her into Newlyn. • General PALAFox, who commands at . Saragossa,l one of the thr ee sons ot the old General of naine. He held a Commis , ion in the Guard I ' Cora,. at Madrid, with the Tank of Major-General' and has ever been distingqishea for gallantry (11 - enterprize. G enera l CuesA'A is an O ffi cer o f mor` i i experienc e , an d h a d a command . in the war again e s France i n 1 79 6 . General CASTA NOS likewis e serv e - in the jute unfortunate canlpaign, and has the rt e Duutiol of bein o . , a good °dicer. We have received some iiumbers of the Budstihi) ken, the Norwegian Official Journal, with details °, the progr es s o f t h e N orwegian Army down to t he 14th lust. At that per i o d the Swedish redoubts nea t Skotzburgh had been carried by assault, after the! had been three times relieved by fresh detachment': The Swedes had likewise been driven, with the I °' of 550 prisoners and many killed, from Freddrie s ; bold, by Oer ge b roe, and flout Roedens. From) , latter neighbourhood, and froth Kontvinger, ti t Norwegians had mace several petty incursions in, o 1 Sweden ; on o ne occas i on t h ey brought Qtf. sg b "_ c-( c . Hussars, and on another some cattlecotill MouttvrEtt, colonel GAHN, and other Lwedish cers, prisoners of war, had been removed 1 11) ':• Christiana to Skie n , w h ere t h ey are to remain t)., their parole. The Debts provedunder the Bankruptcy o f Sir KERRiSON and Son, of Nor - 4 , ich, Bankers, amoui't. ed on Thursday to 46(3,0601. A: million of dollars are to,be shipped at Pox'''. mouth, on board the Eurydice -and Aiinorca, ' l° ` Cadiz. the THE THEATRE. —The second representation of --I new dramatic Piece intitled The Africans, on Satpr; day last, at the Hayinarket,Theatte, fully establislie: it in public f avour. T he house was crowded, and applause uniform and frequent. Several of the airy were encored, and the t*rtortners in general "' cr . warmly applauded, an d a ll exerted themselves great zeal and powerful ettett. The interest of (11 ,' Piet: lias been imp rove d by solue judicious coro" , meats, ~)a ,, •ib this second representation hung upitit the attention •or cattle tardily off. 0 1 , Allay c on fid ent l y prediCt a very successful career iiL; thiS very attesting Dram a , p art i cu l arly as its 41 3 34e5-are so agreeably rcliet., :k i b y datracter , or an opposite iLatir,,, J6i 16z 55 6 59 51 1 1711 I • iis 223 2 3 1 Si i 2io 1 21 4 I 11 11 ri